Originally Posted by FOM Fan:
“Present tense commentary just sounds more exciting to me. And you're watching essentially a replay of live footage anyway, so why shouldn't you have a live-style commentary on it (albeit different from the actual live stuff, because you've already heard it)?
To me, if you do past tense commentary, you're robbed of any surprise because the commentator almost always has to start explaining it before it happens.”
“Present tense commentary just sounds more exciting to me. And you're watching essentially a replay of live footage anyway, so why shouldn't you have a live-style commentary on it (albeit different from the actual live stuff, because you've already heard it)?
To me, if you do past tense commentary, you're robbed of any surprise because the commentator almost always has to start explaining it before it happens.”
There's no colour commentary from Graham Goodwin, that's what makes it obvious that it's not live audio on the WEC highlights videos.
The present tense commentary is often too exact and too well timed to be believable, as the commentator knows what they have to say and when to say it. There's no rawness or realistic delay to what they are seeing as you would get in a real live commentary.




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